  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask seeksorrow" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You wake up. That's not good. You are one of Klaus's dolls. Klaus must Floyd | be in danger. Floyd | Floyd | Starry Seeksorrow Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Ayla Rose Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 150505 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Hidden Lawn Floyd | A narrow, secluded spot in which Klaus is fond of reading. The ground Floyd | is covered by beds of lacegrass. The sky is a crescent of deep blue Floyd | above interlocking squirrel puzzle trees. Archways under bowed trunks Floyd | open north and east. Floyd | Floyd | Klaus is lying on his back in the grass. Floyd | Floyd | A starry seeksorrow grows near Klaus's head. Floyd | Floyd | A heavy edition of Archibault's 1,001 Knights of Slee has Floyd | fallen at Klaus's side. Floyd | Floyd | A paper doll stands here, shivering slightly in the breeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You are Bonnie Blithe, an eighteen-inch high doll with ceramic hands, Floyd | feet, and head, and a cloth body. Klaus's parents, who are skilled Floyd | magicians, enchanted you to come to life in case he comes under Floyd | threat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x klaus" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > X KLAUS Floyd | Floyd | Klaus is lying flat on his back. His skin is dotted with sweat. He Floyd | appears comatose, though his eyes are open, the pupils glimmering Floyd | yellow, pink, and green. Floyd | Floyd | Klaus is the only child of two skilled magicians. He is perhaps too Floyd | curious for his own good, which is why his parents enchanted his dolls Floyd | to protect him in case of a magical attack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x starry" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > X STARRY Floyd | Floyd | A peculiar and worrisome orchid with green-black petals, dappled in Floyd | yellow and pink. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x doll" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > X DOLL Floyd | Floyd | The paper doll is about six inches high and cut from cardstock. Floyd | Klaus's parents have enchanted it to obey your commands. The doll is Floyd | equipped with a paper dragon face, paper thigh boots, and a paper Floyd | fringed dress. Floyd | Floyd | [Command the doll with the syntax >DOLL, GO EAST or >DOLL, TAKE THE Floyd | BOOK.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I've played this before so I'll just watch. Also I'm leaving in an hour." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOK Floyd | Floyd | Klaus lugs this heavy reference manual of otherworldly knights Floyd | everywhere. The book's paper dust jacket is illustrated with a drawing Floyd | of a shield and sword. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Now I'm wanting to hear the song that inspired this." | |
| DavidW says, "I've also played it, although I'm sure I didn't learn all the game's secrets." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | Flipping randomly through the book of knights, you find an anecdote in Floyd | which Swa Wortilda narrowly defeated Plulph. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh yeah, I never did listen to the song." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take starry" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE STARRY Floyd | Floyd | The starry seeksorrow is still attached to the stem. You will have to Floyd | cut it first. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't remember a song at all." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a long white dress (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Well, each of these games was inspired by a song." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x dress" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > X DRESS Floyd | Floyd | (the long white dress) Floyd | Klaus sewed the dress for you, after cutting the cloth from the Floyd | curtains in his parents' parlor. It is very much like a shapeless sack Floyd | with a fringe of lace at the bottom. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. That. I don't listen to any of the songs, then." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Greenhouse Floyd | A sunny green bank. Paths leads north, northwest, and west to the Floyd | hidden lawn. Floyd | Floyd | The paned glass wall of a greenhouse rises to the east. High above Floyd | your head a reflection of the sun gleams. Floyd | Floyd | Growing inside the greenhouse you see a sweet maskelyne, a galen's Floyd | glory, a ligerlily, and a watchflower. Floyd | Floyd | Laid in the greenhouse floor is a drainage trough. At the east end is Floyd | a faucet, and at the west end, a pipe, through which water can be Floyd | flushed out of the trough onto the lawn. Floyd | Floyd | A six-foot high tangle of zephyrwort whirls and dances over the grass. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | [Seeksorrow is an entry for ShuffleComp Disc 2 by Ayla Rose. Floyd | It is inspired by the song "The Violet Hour" by Dolls Come to Life. Floyd | Floyd | A tremendous thanks for my testers Chandler Groover, Juhana Leinonen, Floyd | and Tim Wolfe. Floyd | Floyd | The cover image was made with a public domain photo, taken by Floyd | MiraculixHB, of the damage caused by the weevil Rhopalapion Floyd | longirostre: [LINK]Floyd | ld.JPG] Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "lots of strange flowers here" | |
| DavidW says, "I'm pretty sure violets are not the answer." | ||
| Doug says, "I see a few things in the song lyrics that appear in the game, but the game is much more than what's in the song" | ||
| [LINK] | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x zephyrwort" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > X ZEPHYRWORT Floyd | Floyd | A living storm of leaves and tendrils, moving under its own power. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x sweet" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > X SWEET Floyd | Floyd | A flower with glossy black petals like a tail coat and top hat, and a Floyd | yellow pistil like a magic wand. Floyd | Floyd | The sweet maskelyne seems to doff its top hat. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Dolls Come to Life being the band name is less intruiging than it being a part of the song, for some reason." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x ligerlily" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > X LIGERLILY Floyd | Floyd | A flower whose petals, striped black and yellow, form the face of a Floyd | snarling, maned cat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x watchflower" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > X WATCHFLOWER Floyd | Floyd | The petals, arranged in the form of a small globe, are red-veined Floyd | white, with a central grey ring and black dot. The flower looks very Floyd | much like an eye staring back at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The glass wall is intact; there's no way inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x trough" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > X TROUGH Floyd | Floyd | A tiled trough in the greenhouse floor. It looks intended to collect Floyd | and then drain water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x pipe" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > X PIPE Floyd | Floyd | The pipe allows water in the trough to flush out of the greenhouse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x faucet" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > X FAUCET Floyd | Floyd | Small and made of metal. It's etched with the illegible calligraphy of Floyd | a spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Folly Floyd | Patterns of green and gold play around a structure of mossy stones Floyd | built to look like a ruined temple. Its walls are overgrown with Floyd | creeping diamondbane. Paths lead east, south to the hidden lawn, and Floyd | southeast to the greenhouse. Floyd | Floyd | A single diamondbane flower grows low enough for you to reach. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the temple is a grooved marble altar. Floyd | Floyd | On the altar are a pair of clippers and a guide book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| lalonde_stride says (to Floyd), "read about seeksorrow in guidebook" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > READ ABOUT SEEKSORROW IN GUIDEBOOK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x guidebook" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > X GUIDEBOOK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x guide book" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > X GUIDE BOOK Floyd | Floyd | Cowell's Guide to Arcane Flowers, Trees, and Shrubs is a Floyd | standard reference for magical gardening. Klaus loves to pore over it Floyd | whenever he gets the chance. There's an index at the back, allowing Floyd | you to consult the book on particular plants. Floyd | Floyd | [Consult the guide book with the syntax >LOOK UP X IN BOOK or >CONSULT Floyd | BOOK ON X.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take book" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BOOK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x altar" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > X ALTAR Floyd | Floyd | The temple might be fake, but this altar has the unfalsifiable eerie Floyd | presence of the real thing; Klaus's parents, avid antiquarians, Floyd | imported it from an otherworldly dig-site. Once Klaus "sacrificed" you Floyd | on this altar. (And then sewed you up again, thankfully.) Floyd | Floyd | Some significance of an expedition nags at your mind. Floyd | Floyd | On the altar is a pair of clippers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "think about expedition" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > THINK ABOUT EXPEDITION Floyd | Floyd | [You don't need to do that. Just >EXAMINE things that are mentioned in Floyd | the text.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x expedition" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > X EXPEDITION Floyd | Floyd | The memory writhes like something alive. It's like a fat snake woven Floyd | into a tapestry of dry and dusty threads. Floyd | Floyd | Klaus's parents, Victor and Alva Lindworm, acquired the altar fifteen Floyd | years ago. They had heard news of a secret expedition to the ruins of Floyd | Slee, the ancient otherwordly city which is the source of all magic. Floyd | The expedition was headed by their old tutor from Blackbow, Percival Floyd | Vitus Peck; Victor and Alva, who had just moved into their estate at Floyd | Nightshade, young and full of mischief before they had a young Klaus Floyd | to worry over, decided it would be a legendary lark to infiltrate Floyd | Percival's expedition and reassign the ownership of some of his finds. Floyd | So they donned preposterous disguises, feathers, false beards, dark Floyd | glasses, long robes and longswords, and blustered their way into the Floyd | dig site, where they stole this altar out from under Percival's nose. Floyd | Floyd | Further significances nag at your mind: a personal relationship, and a Floyd | tragedy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hrm. Crap. Have to step away for a sec, but will be back and will say hi when I've caught up on the backscroll." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x relationship" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > X RELATIONSHIP Floyd | Floyd | The memory stands out like a misshapen leaf in an otherwise flawless Floyd | hedge. Floyd | Floyd | Alva and Victor had no particular reason to dislike Percival Vitus Floyd | Peck, beyond the generalized and impersonal disdain engendered by any Floyd | unexceptional teacher in the breast of his students. Until they heard Floyd | news of his expedition to Slee, neither had even thought of him in Floyd | several years. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| lalonde_stride says (to Floyd), "x tragedy" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > X TRAGEDY Floyd | Floyd | The memory gleams like a glowing flower almost buried under deep Floyd | jungle growth. Floyd | Floyd | In order to infiltrate the dig site, Victor and Alva had to disable a Floyd | warning spell set in place by Percival. It was easy to delete the Floyd | spell--Percival's magic was dull and obvious, no match for the casual Floyd | genius of the two brilliant Blackbow alumni, fired as they were by the Floyd | low-stakes villainy of what they doing. The warning spell vanished as Floyd | they wriggled their fingers like spiders; they did not realize they Floyd | were deleting a warding spell along with the warning spell. Once they Floyd | had flown away into the sky with the stolen altar obediently floating Floyd | behind them, the missing warding spell was noticed, but not by Floyd | Percival. A Rotted Leps emerged from the necrotic, abysmal depths of Floyd | Slee and carried off Percival's infant son Charlie from his cradle in Floyd | the command tent, and Percival was sent insane by grief and rage. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "oh no :(" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x clippers" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > X CLIPPERS Floyd | Floyd | A standard pair of gardening clippers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | lalonde_stride asks, "cut the seeksorrow?" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "consult book on seeksorrow" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > CONSULT BOOK ON SEEKSORROW Floyd | Floyd | The starry seeksorrow orchid is the most dangerous and alluring of Floyd | arcane flowers. Its scent, like a combination of hot metal, burnt Floyd | sugar, blood, sweet pine sap, vinegar, bones, violets, rotten silk, Floyd | peat, earthworms, overripe pears, apple juice, roses, and many other Floyd | fleeting notes, is so complex as to induce catatonia in anyone Floyd | unfortunate enough to smell it. The starry seeksorrow does not have a Floyd | natural habitat, and grows only under the influence of a magician's Floyd | curse. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I would cut it, yes." | |
| Roger says, "Maybe a rotting dingo ate your baby" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x diamondbane" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > X DIAMONDBANE Floyd | Floyd | (the diamondbane flower) Floyd | A spiny flower with hundreds of short, stiff, dark blue petals. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "consult book on diamondbane" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > CONSULT BOOK ON DIAMONDBANE Floyd | Floyd | The diamondbane is a flower with dubious magical qualities, which Floyd | grows on a creeping vine. It is seldom grown in or near greenhouses Floyd | due to the bloom's damaging effect on glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "aha" | |
| lalonde_stride says (to Floyd), "consult book on watchflower" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > CONSULT BOOK ON WATCHFLOWER Floyd | Floyd | The watchflower is an ornamental orchid whose jointed stem allows Floyd | it unusually flexible rotation while seeking the sun, though it is Floyd | sometimes said that it just looks around because it is curious. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cut diamondbane with clippers" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > CUT DIAMONDBANE WITH CLIPPERS Floyd | Floyd | (the diamondbane flower with the pair of clippers) Floyd | You cut the diamondbane flower free from its stem. It flutters to the Floyd | ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take flower" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE FLOWER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "consult book on sweet" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > CONSULT BOOK ON SWEET Floyd | Floyd | The sweet maskelyne is a rare and magical flower, though it is Floyd | possible that its apparent magic is all just illusions. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "consult book on ligerlily" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > CONSULT BOOK ON LIGERLILY Floyd | Floyd | The ligerlily is an aggressive flower whose bloom can move under Floyd | its own power. Since it is known to fiercely defend itself against all Floyd | natural pollinators, it must be pollinated (carefully) by hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Thanks floral rape culture" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Greenhouse Floyd | A sunny green bank. Paths leads north, northwest to the folly, and Floyd | west to the hidden lawn. Floyd | Floyd | The paned glass wall of a greenhouse rises to the east. High above Floyd | your head a reflection of the sun gleams. Floyd | Floyd | Growing inside the greenhouse you see a sweet maskelyne, a galen's Floyd | glory, a ligerlily, and a watchflower. Floyd | Floyd | Laid in the greenhouse floor is a drainage trough. At the east end is Floyd | a faucet, and at the west end, a pipe, through which water can be Floyd | flushed out of the trough onto the lawn. Floyd | Floyd | A six-foot high tangle of zephyrwort whirls and dances over the grass. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "consult book about galen's" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > CONSULT BOOK ABOUT GALEN'S Floyd | Floyd | The galen's glory, known since antiquity to cure all manner of Floyd | maladies and complaints both magical and mundane, is a useful addition Floyd | to any garden. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x galen's" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GALEN'S
Floyd |
Floyd | A flower with broad petals of red, yellow, white, and black; the
Floyd | colors of the four humours.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "blood, phlegm, bile, and melancholy, if I remember correctly." | |
| Roger says, "Two flavours of bile" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "throw diamondbane at glass" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > THROW DIAMONDBANE AT GLASS Floyd | Floyd | You throw the diamondbane flower at the greenhouse wall. A pane of Floyd | glass cracks at the impact and the flower explodes in a puff of Floyd | petals. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "yehaw" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | There is a crack in the glass, but, as it's only paper-thin, you're Floyd | too large to fit through. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "dang" | |
| Doug says, "took me forever to come up with throwing the diamondbane." | ||
| DavidW asks (of Doug), "You didn't consult the book?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hidden Lawn Floyd | A narrow, secluded spot in which Klaus is fond of reading. The ground Floyd | is covered by beds of lacegrass. The sky is a crescent of deep blue Floyd | above interlocking squirrel puzzle trees. Archways under bowed trunks Floyd | open north, to the folly, and east, to the greenhouse. Floyd | Floyd | Klaus is lying on his back in the grass. Floyd | Floyd | A starry seeksorrow grows near Klaus's head. Floyd | Floyd | A heavy edition of Archibault's 1,001 Knights of Slee has Floyd | fallen at Klaus's side. Floyd | Floyd | A paper doll stands here, shivering slightly in the breeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, e" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, E
Floyd |
Floyd | It might be useful to ask the paper doll to do something, but you
Floyd | don't have a working mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Greenhouse Floyd | A sunny green bank. Paths leads north, northwest to the folly, and Floyd | west to the hidden lawn. Floyd | Floyd | The paned glass wall of a greenhouse rises to the east. High above Floyd | your head a reflection of the sun gleams. Floyd | Floyd | A narrow crack stretches a foot vertically across a single grass-level Floyd | pane in the greenhouse wall. Floyd | Floyd | Growing inside the greenhouse you see a sweet maskelyne, a galen's Floyd | glory, a ligerlily, and a watchflower. Floyd | Floyd | Laid in the greenhouse floor is a drainage trough. At the east end is Floyd | a faucet, and at the west end, a pipe, through which water can be Floyd | flushed out of the trough onto the lawn. Floyd | Floyd | A six-foot high tangle of zephyrwort whirls and dances over the grass. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I Have No Mouth But I Must Delegate Jobs to Paper Dolls." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Orchard Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Orchard Floyd | The hummocky ground is shaded by large fruit trees. Paths leads south Floyd | to the greenhouse, west to the folly, and northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A coffintree grows here. High in its branches sprouts an immature gall Floyd | the size of a baby's casket; close to the ground its massive mature Floyd | gall has split open, ready for use. Floyd | Floyd | A chimecherry tree is covered with fruit. Most of the cherries are Floyd | unripe, but one bunch hanging six feet up, bright red and glossy, Floyd | looks ready to chime. Floyd | Floyd | A clump of needlevine is entangled with the bunch of ripe Floyd | chimecherries. One spiny tendril dangles down almost to the ground. Floyd | Floyd | The zephyrwort blows in to greet you on a dancing column of Floyd | vegetation. Floyd | Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "consult book about zephyrwort" | ||
Floyd ] Orchard Floyd | Floyd | > CONSULT BOOK ABOUT ZEPHYRWORT Floyd | Floyd | Zephyrwort is a mobile, semi-intelligent weed. The zephyrwort Floyd | plant has a playful manner, seemingly enjoying following and even Floyd | pestering people it comes across, though fortunately it is easily Floyd | distracted. Since it does not permanently root, instead resting at Floyd | night to take sustenance from pools of water or from the dew, the Floyd | zephrywort rarely grows larger than human-height, though travelers Floyd | have reported finding vast monocultures of zephyrwort, thrashing Floyd | jungles in which the playful teasing of the plant, magnified to the Floyd | scale of a landscape, can quickly become deadly. Floyd | Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I may just not be awake this morning. I'm enjoying reading this, but am not 100% sure I'm tracking it well." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Is it as disorienting as it seems, or do I just need more coffee?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I've played it before, and I need more tea." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think part of the disorientation is all the plant names are compounded names." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x cherries" | ||
Floyd ] Orchard Floyd | Floyd | > X CHERRIES Floyd | Floyd | Klaus's favorite fruit. Floyd | Floyd | Once he ate a quart of them in one afternoon, which he much regretted Floyd | later that evening. Floyd | Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x needlevine" | ||
Floyd ] Orchard Floyd | Floyd | > X NEEDLEVINE Floyd | Floyd | A vine with mottled, red-brown leaves, covered with needle-like Floyd | thorns. Floyd | Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "consult book about cherries" | ||
Floyd ] Orchard Floyd | Floyd | > CONSULT BOOK ABOUT CHERRIES Floyd | Floyd | You check the index, but see no entry for cherries. Floyd | Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "consult book about chimecherries" | ||
Floyd ] Orchard Floyd | Floyd | > CONSULT BOOK ABOUT CHIMECHERRIES Floyd | Floyd | The sweet and tart fruit of the chimecherry tree contains, instead Floyd | of a pit, a tiny metal bell. When ripe, the fruit splits, allowing the Floyd | bunches of cherries to ring like a windchime. Because of its lack of Floyd | seeds, the chimecherry does not grow naturally and must be magically Floyd | propagated. Floyd | Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "consult book about needlevine" | ||
Floyd ] Orchard Floyd | Floyd | > CONSULT BOOK ABOUT NEEDLEVINE Floyd | Floyd | Needlevine, an epiphytic parasite, is a common weed in magical Floyd | gardens. It has no roots, instead subsisting directly on the magical Floyd | energy of other arcane plants, leeched through a prehensile Floyd | haustorium. The needlevine is equipped with sharp thorns, which it is Floyd | quick to brandish at anyone who disturbs it, making its eradication Floyd | quite difficult. Floyd | Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Maybe I should have a coffee as well." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "pull needlevine" | ||
Floyd ] Orchard Floyd | Floyd | > PULL NEEDLEVINE Floyd | Floyd | The vine spasms at your touch, and dozens of needles stab into your Floyd | body. Fortunately your body is made of cloth. Floyd | Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x coffintree" | ||
Floyd ] Orchard Floyd | Floyd | > X COFFINTREE Floyd | Floyd | A tall tree with long, straight branches at the top. Several galls Floyd | grow from it. Floyd | Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x gall" | ||
Floyd ] Orchard Floyd | Floyd | > X GALL Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the immature gall or the mature gall? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "immature" | ||
Floyd ] Orchard Floyd | Floyd | > IMMATURE Floyd | Floyd | It looks like a large, angular nut. Floyd | Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x mature" | ||
Floyd ] Orchard Floyd | Floyd | > X MATURE Floyd | Floyd | It looks like a huge, angular nut with an open seam running around its Floyd | rim. The inside of the gall is etched with the spectronym the Floyd | erstwhile gall ghost gave itself: Revilecto. Floyd | Floyd | Some significance of the history of a ghost nags at your Floyd | mind. Floyd | Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "See, IRTA coffeetree. So that's a clue for me, right there." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x history" | ||
Floyd ] Orchard Floyd | Floyd | > X HISTORY Floyd | Floyd | The memory glitters like a diamond in a heap of shattered glass. Floyd | Floyd | The gall first formed on the bark of the coffintree six months ago; Floyd | since then, when the most recent gall ghost spore first arrived, the Floyd | gall grew to maturity and split open, releasing the ghost to wander Floyd | the garden. Floyd | Floyd | A further significance nags at your mind: the question of an intruder. Floyd | Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x intruder" | ||
Floyd ] Orchard Floyd | Floyd | > X INTRUDER Floyd | Floyd | The memory stands out like a discolored spine in a vast library of Floyd | otherwise identical volumes. Floyd | Floyd | A conversation between Victor and Alva several years ago concerned the Floyd | security of their magic garden. It seemed they were worried about the Floyd | possibility of a revenger. The garden was sealed tight with a hundred Floyd | warding spells; there was no way anyone who wished Alva and Victor or Floyd | their child Klaus harm could get inside. Of course, one loophole had Floyd | to be left; without such a loophole, gall ghosts would be unable to Floyd | enter the garden to fertilize the coffintree. And a magical garden Floyd | with no ghost-inhabited coffintree is no magical garden at all... Floyd | Floyd | What if someone who wished ill against the Lindworms found a way to Floyd | infiltrate the warded garden? What if such a person stipulated that Floyd | when they died, they be buried in a coffin gall, knowing that they Floyd | would subsequently become a gall ghost which could freely enter Floyd | through the garden's wards? Floyd | Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "consult book about coffintree" | ||
Floyd ] Orchard Floyd | Floyd | > CONSULT BOOK ABOUT COFFINTREE Floyd | Floyd | The coffintree is host to a symbiotic species of ghost which Floyd | induces the growth of large, hollow galls which resemble, and are Floyd | occasionally used as, coffins. A corpse buried in such a coffin gall Floyd | will become, in turn, a coffintree ghost, and float in the form of an Floyd | invisible spore until it finds an unfertilized coffintree to Floyd | inhabit. Floyd | Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "tree ghost" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Interesting." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Imaginative writing." | ||
| chaudmin says, "lots of exposition" | ||
| DavidW says, "I only managed the save Klaus. If there's also a way to warn the parents about the ghost, or to get rid of the ghost too, I didn't figure that part out." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take zephyrwort" | ||
Floyd ] Orchard Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ZEPHYRWORT Floyd | Floyd | The zephyrwort, seeming to enjoy this game, cheerfully evades you. Floyd | Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Gate Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Gate Floyd | The red brick wall which bounds the northeast corner of the garden is Floyd | broken here by a wrought-iron gate. The bricks are overgrown with Floyd | mime's-mouth. A path leads southwest, to the orchard; far beyond the Floyd | gate to the northeast is the pink stone bulk of Nightshade, Klaus's Floyd | parents' house. Floyd | Floyd | One mime's-mouth flower droops down within reach on a long tendril. Floyd | Floyd | A red-brown statue of a dogjaw, with its tail curled under its body, Floyd | stands here on a granite plinth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x mime's" | ||
Floyd ] Gate
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MIME'S
Floyd |
Floyd | A tiny flower whose two red petals are parted like lips.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "consult book about mime's" | ||
Floyd ] Gate Floyd | Floyd | > CONSULT BOOK ABOUT MIME'S Floyd | Floyd | The mime's-mouth is a useful flower which grows on a climbing, Floyd | deciduous vine. Shaped like a pair of human lips, the mime's-mouth can Floyd | be worn in emergencies to provide a voice for those who have Floyd | none. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "aha" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cut mime's with clippers" | ||
Floyd ] Gate
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT MIME'S WITH CLIPPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You cut the mime's-mouth flower free from its stem. It flutters to the
Floyd | ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "nice" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "wear mime's" | ||
Floyd ] Gate
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR MIME'S
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking the mime's-mouth flower)
Floyd | You attach the mime's-mouth flower to your face.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "And if there's no mimemouth, try tulips." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x gate" | ||
Floyd ] Gate Floyd | Floyd | > X GATE Floyd | Floyd | A heavy gate, beyond which you can see an avenue of mundane oak trees, Floyd | a field sloping down to a slow river, and, almost at the outer extent Floyd | of your magical vision, the eclectic towers, wings, and windows of Floyd | Nightshade. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x nightshade" | ||
Floyd ] Gate Floyd | Floyd | > X NIGHTSHADE Floyd | Floyd | Nightshade is a whimsical maze of a magical manor house. Under the Floyd | whimsy, if you know where to look for it, are deep foundations of Floyd | madness and horror. But that's the world of magic in general; you Floyd | would know, being nothing more than a magical collection of memories Floyd | and motivations brought to life to help Klaus in case of emergency. Floyd | Floyd | Something significant about the recent history of Nightshade nags Floyd | at your memory. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x history" | ||
Floyd ] Gate Floyd | Floyd | > X HISTORY Floyd | Floyd | The memory shines like a polished star on a wall of tarnished silver. Floyd | Floyd | Nightshade has a long and frankly bewildering history; your magically Floyd | implanted memory includes most of it, at least in abbreviated form. Floyd | What seems important just now is something that happened shortly after Floyd | Alva inherited the place, when she and her new husband spent a weekend Floyd | expelling all the ghosts that had accumulated at the estate over the Floyd | years like barnacles on an old hull. Floyd | Floyd | A further significances nag at your mind: the memory of a ghost hunt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x hunt" | ||
Floyd ] Gate Floyd | Floyd | > X HUNT Floyd | Floyd | The memory rattles like an impervious bumble bee trapped inside a Floyd | closed book. Floyd | Floyd | Some of the ghosts were strong enough to be met with blades--the young Floyd | couple had great fun chasing the ghosts with swords in their right Floyd | hands and blue-flaming candles in their left--but many were weaker, Floyd | and paradoxically these weaker ghosts were the greater hazard. Weak Floyd | ghosts often inhabit statues and sculptures, of which there is (or was Floyd | then) no shortage at Nightshade, and once inhabiting a statue, like a Floyd | hermit crab inside a shell, the ghost can only be shaken loose and Floyd | expelled with the proper magic formula: the magic word, followed by Floyd | the given name it bore in life, followed by its hidden spectronym. Floyd | Alva and Victor spent a weekend trading duties: one would research the Floyd | given names and spectronyms of the offending ghosts, and the other Floyd | would roam looking for eerie, moving statues and shouting out the Floyd | formula: "Susohabor Beatrice Huskloom! Susohabor Henry Osteorn! Floyd | Susohabor Reginald Gravesile!" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, I missed this stuff." | |
| DavidW says, "oho!" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x dogjaw" | ||
Floyd ] Gate Floyd | Floyd | > X DOGJAW Floyd | Floyd | A statue of a prehistoric psuedomammal, a cynodont, carved from an Floyd | unusually large piece of petrified wood. Its body is bulky and Floyd | powerful, with a barrel-like torso, short, sturdy, clawed legs, and a Floyd | huge toothy mouth. It's red-brown, with stripes along its flank like a Floyd | young boar. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ok. I know what I missed doing now." | |
| chaudmin says, "I'm thinking this statue is suspicious" | ||
| DavidW says, "I also know where the spectronym can be found." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Orchard Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Orchard Floyd | The hummocky ground is shaded by large fruit trees. Paths leads south Floyd | to the greenhouse, west to the folly, and northeast to the gate. Floyd | Floyd | A six-foot high tangle of zephyrwort dances and whirls beneath the Floyd | tree trunks. Floyd | Floyd | A coffintree grows here. High in its branches sprouts an immature gall Floyd | the size of a baby's casket; close to the ground its massive mature Floyd | gall has split open, ready for use. Some significance of the history Floyd | of a ghost nags at your mind. Floyd | Floyd | A chimecherry tree is covered with fruit. Most of the cherries are Floyd | unripe, but one bunch hanging six feet up, bright red and glossy, Floyd | looks ready to chime. Floyd | Floyd | A clump of needlevine is entangled with the bunch of ripe Floyd | chimecherries. One spiny tendril dangles down almost to the ground. Floyd | Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x mature" | ||
Floyd ] Orchard Floyd | Floyd | > X MATURE Floyd | Floyd | It looks like a huge, angular nut with an open seam running around its Floyd | rim. The inside of the gall is etched with the spectronym the Floyd | erstwhile gall ghost gave itself: Revilecto. Floyd | Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "revilecto" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Gate Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Gate Floyd | The red brick wall which bounds the northeast corner of the garden is Floyd | broken here by a wrought-iron gate. The bricks are overgrown with Floyd | mime's-mouth. A path leads southwest, to the orchard; far beyond the Floyd | gate to the northeast is the pink stone bulk of Nightshade, Klaus's Floyd | parents' house. Something significant about the recent history of Floyd | Nightshade nags at your memory. Floyd | Floyd | A red-brown statue of a dogjaw, with its tail curled loosely under its Floyd | body, stands here on a granite plinth. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "so... susohabor percival revilecto!" | |
| chaudmin says, "time to banish this ghost" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "susohabor percival revilecto" | ||
Floyd ] Gate Floyd | Floyd | > SUSOHABOR PERCIVAL REVILECTO Floyd | Floyd | The statue of the dogjaw shatters and a squirm of otherworldly Floyd | translucency arises from the fragments: the ghost known as Percival Floyd | Revilecto. Floyd | Floyd | The ghost shrieks with rage. "You bloody stupid toy! Have you any idea Floyd | what hells I endured to avenge myself on those who fully deserved my Floyd | revenge--" Floyd | Floyd | But the invisible hooks of the magic word are already dragging it Floyd | backwards into oblivion. Its complaint is silenced as the ghost Floyd | vanishes into a crack of air. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Please do. I never knew I could." | |
| DavidW says, "yay!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Nice" | ||
| chaudmin says, "hooray" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Gate Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Gate Floyd | The red brick wall which bounds the northeast corner of the garden is Floyd | broken here by a wrought-iron gate. The bricks are overgrown with Floyd | mime's-mouth. A path leads southwest, to the orchard; far beyond the Floyd | gate to the northeast is the pink stone bulk of Nightshade, Klaus's Floyd | parents' house. Something significant about the recent history of Floyd | Nightshade nags at your memory. Floyd | Floyd | Fragments of a broken statue litter the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Who are you going to call? Ghostbanishers." | |
| DavidW says, "You should get a better ending than I got, then." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x fragments" | ||
Floyd ] Gate Floyd | Floyd | > X FRAGMENTS Floyd | Floyd | The red-brown fragments of a shattered statue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Orchard Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Orchard Floyd | The hummocky ground is shaded by large fruit trees. Paths leads south Floyd | to the greenhouse, west to the folly, and northeast to the gate. Floyd | Floyd | A six-foot high tangle of zephyrwort dances and whirls beneath the Floyd | tree trunks. Floyd | Floyd | A coffintree grows here. High in its branches sprouts an immature gall Floyd | the size of a baby's casket; close to the ground its massive mature Floyd | gall has split open, ready for use. Some significance of the history Floyd | of a ghost nags at your mind. Floyd | Floyd | A chimecherry tree is covered with fruit. Most of the cherries are Floyd | unripe, but one bunch hanging six feet up, bright red and glossy, Floyd | looks ready to chime. Floyd | Floyd | A clump of needlevine is entangled with the bunch of ripe Floyd | chimecherries. One spiny tendril dangles down almost to the ground. Floyd | Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Greenhouse Floyd | A sunny green bank. Paths leads north to the orchard, northwest to the Floyd | folly, and west to the hidden lawn. Floyd | Floyd | The paned glass wall of a greenhouse rises to the east. High above Floyd | your head a reflection of the sun gleams. Floyd | Floyd | A narrow crack stretches a foot vertically across a single grass-level Floyd | pane in the greenhouse wall. Floyd | Floyd | Growing inside the greenhouse you see a sweet maskelyne, a galen's Floyd | glory, a ligerlily, and a watchflower. Floyd | Floyd | Laid in the greenhouse floor is a drainage trough. At the east end is Floyd | a faucet, and at the west end, a pipe, through which water can be Floyd | flushed out of the trough onto the lawn. Floyd | Floyd | The zephyrwort blows in to greet you on a dancing column of Floyd | vegetation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hidden Lawn Floyd | A narrow, secluded spot in which Klaus is fond of reading. The ground Floyd | is covered by beds of lacegrass. The sky is a crescent of deep blue Floyd | above interlocking squirrel puzzle trees. Archways under bowed trunks Floyd | open north, to the folly, and east, to the greenhouse. Floyd | Floyd | Klaus is lying on his back in the grass. Floyd | Floyd | A starry seeksorrow grows near Klaus's head. Floyd | Floyd | A heavy edition of Archibault's 1,001 Knights of Slee has Floyd | fallen at Klaus's side. Floyd | Floyd | A paper doll stands here, shivering slightly in the breeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cut seeksorrow with clippers" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > CUT SEEKSORROW WITH CLIPPERS Floyd | Floyd | You cut the starry seeksorrow free from its stem. It flutters to the Floyd | ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'd also move the seeksorrow to another location, at least." | |
| DavidW says, "Dunno if we can burn it or destroy it." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take seeksorrow" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SEEKSORROW Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "But we don't want Klaus smelling it again." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, e" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, E
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll goes east.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear a great rush of wind and leaves from elsewhere in the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll blows in from the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| chaudmin says, "hmm" | |
| chaudmin says, "oh, the zephyrwort" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes, the blowhard is a nuisance." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Greenhouse Floyd | A sunny green bank. Paths leads north to the orchard, northwest to the Floyd | folly, and west to the hidden lawn. Floyd | Floyd | A six-foot high tangle of zephyrwort whirls and dances over the grass. Floyd | Floyd | The paned glass wall of a greenhouse rises to the east. High above Floyd | your head a reflection of the sun gleams. Floyd | Floyd | A narrow crack stretches a foot vertically across a single grass-level Floyd | pane in the greenhouse wall. Floyd | Floyd | Growing inside the greenhouse you see a sweet maskelyne, a galen's Floyd | glory, a ligerlily, and a watchflower. Floyd | Floyd | Laid in the greenhouse floor is a drainage trough. At the east end is Floyd | a faucet, and at the west end, a pipe, through which water can be Floyd | flushed out of the trough onto the lawn. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The guide book said it can be distracted, though." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Orchard Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Orchard Floyd | The hummocky ground is shaded by large fruit trees. Paths leads south Floyd | to the greenhouse, west to the folly, and northeast to the gate. Floyd | Floyd | A coffintree grows here. High in its branches sprouts an immature gall Floyd | the size of a baby's casket; close to the ground its massive mature Floyd | gall has split open, ready for use. Some significance of the history Floyd | of a ghost nags at your mind. Floyd | Floyd | A chimecherry tree is covered with fruit. Most of the cherries are Floyd | unripe, but one bunch hanging six feet up, bright red and glossy, Floyd | looks ready to chime. Floyd | Floyd | A clump of needlevine is entangled with the bunch of ripe Floyd | chimecherries. One spiny tendril dangles down almost to the ground. Floyd | Floyd | The zephyrwort blows in to greet you on a dancing column of Floyd | vegetation. Floyd | Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls excitedly around the bunch of chimecherries, but Floyd | the needlevine has tangled them up so they don't make a sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cut needlevine with clippers" | ||
Floyd ] Orchard Floyd | Floyd | > CUT NEEDLEVINE WITH CLIPPERS Floyd | Floyd | The needlevine spasms, then draws itself higher up into the Floyd | chimecherry and out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x chimecherries" | ||
Floyd ] Orchard Floyd | Floyd | > X CHIMECHERRIES Floyd | Floyd | (the bunch of chimecherries) Floyd | Klaus's favorite fruit. Floyd | Floyd | The zephyrwort whirls about the bunch of chimecherries, setting them Floyd | jingling like bells. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "okay that should do it" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Greenhouse Floyd | A sunny green bank. Paths leads north to the orchard, northwest to the Floyd | folly, and west to the hidden lawn. Floyd | Floyd | The paned glass wall of a greenhouse rises to the east. High above Floyd | your head a reflection of the sun gleams. Floyd | Floyd | A narrow crack stretches a foot vertically across a single grass-level Floyd | pane in the greenhouse wall. Floyd | Floyd | Growing inside the greenhouse you see a sweet maskelyne, a galen's Floyd | glory, a ligerlily, and a watchflower. Floyd | Floyd | Laid in the greenhouse floor is a drainage trough. At the east end is Floyd | a faucet, and at the west end, a pipe, through which water can be Floyd | flushed out of the trough onto the lawn. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "it should, yes" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hidden Lawn Floyd | A narrow, secluded spot in which Klaus is fond of reading. The ground Floyd | is covered by beds of lacegrass. The sky is a crescent of deep blue Floyd | above interlocking squirrel puzzle trees. Archways under bowed trunks Floyd | open north, to the folly, and east, to the greenhouse. Floyd | Floyd | A paper doll stands here, shivering slightly in the breeze. Floyd | Floyd | Klaus is lying on his back in the grass. Floyd | Floyd | A heavy edition of Archibault's 1,001 Knights of Slee has Floyd | fallen at Klaus's side. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "nicely donw" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, e" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, E
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll goes east.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear a metallic jingling sound from somewhere else in the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Greenhouse Floyd | A sunny green bank. Paths leads north to the orchard, northwest to the Floyd | folly, and west to the hidden lawn. Floyd | Floyd | A paper doll stands here, shivering slightly in the breeze. Floyd | Floyd | The paned glass wall of a greenhouse rises to the east. High above Floyd | your head a reflection of the sun gleams. Floyd | Floyd | A narrow crack stretches a foot vertically across a single grass-level Floyd | pane in the greenhouse wall. Floyd | Floyd | Growing inside the greenhouse you see a sweet maskelyne, a galen's Floyd | glory, a ligerlily, and a watchflower. Floyd | Floyd | Laid in the greenhouse floor is a drainage trough. At the east end is Floyd | a faucet, and at the west end, a pipe, through which water can be Floyd | flushed out of the trough onto the lawn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, e" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, E
Floyd |
Floyd | The doll slips through the crack into the greenhouse.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ligerlily roars and snaps at the paper doll; with no way to defend
Floyd | itself, the paper doll is knocked back into the drainage trough.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sweet maskelyne bobs in excitement.
Floyd |
Floyd | The faucet, enchanted by a spell, turns on. The trough fills with
Floyd | water, flushing the paper doll through the pipe and out of the
Floyd | greenhouse. The faucet turns off and the trough runs empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| chaudmin says, "oh nooo" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x doll" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > X DOLL Floyd | Floyd | The paper doll is about six inches high and cut from cardstock. Floyd | Klaus's parents have enchanted it to obey your commands. The doll is Floyd | equipped with a paper dragon face, paper thigh boots, and a paper Floyd | fringed dress. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I figured this out in an instant, but I was suspicious of something very early on." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x paper dragon" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > X PAPER DRAGON Floyd | Floyd | A scaly green dragon face with a curling, thorned tongue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "give clippers to doll" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE CLIPPERS TO DOLL Floyd | Floyd | The paper doll takes the pair of clippers, but it is too heavy and the Floyd | doll bends under the strain. Floyd | Floyd | The paper doll puts down the pair of clippers. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "well then" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take clippers" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CLIPPERS Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a pair of clippers Floyd | a starry seeksorrow Floyd | a mime's-mouth flower (being worn) Floyd | a guide book Floyd | a long white dress (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "give seeksorrow to doll" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE SEEKSORROW TO DOLL Floyd | Floyd | You give the starry seeksorrow to the paper doll. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "If you need a hint...?" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, e" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, E
Floyd |
Floyd | The doll can't fit through the crack while it is carrying the starry
Floyd | seeksorrow.
Floyd |
Floyd | The doll hunts for a way to the east but finds none.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| chaudmin asks, "okay so only paper will fit?" | |
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take seeksorrow" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SEEKSORROW Floyd | Floyd | The paper doll gives the starry seeksorrow to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "oh wait" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hidden Lawn Floyd | A narrow, secluded spot in which Klaus is fond of reading. The ground Floyd | is covered by beds of lacegrass. The sky is a crescent of deep blue Floyd | above interlocking squirrel puzzle trees. Archways under bowed trunks Floyd | open north, to the folly, and east, to the greenhouse. Floyd | Floyd | Klaus is lying on his back in the grass. Floyd | Floyd | A heavy edition of Archibault's 1,001 Knights of Slee has Floyd | fallen at Klaus's side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x knights" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > X KNIGHTS Floyd | Floyd | Klaus lugs this heavy reference manual of otherworldly knights Floyd | everywhere. The book's paper dust jacket is illustrated with a drawing Floyd | of a shield and sword. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x sword" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > X SWORD Floyd | Floyd | An ink drawing of a sword. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I love this." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cut knights with clippers" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > CUT KNIGHTS WITH CLIPPERS Floyd | Floyd | The book of knights doesn't need to be cut. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cut sword with clippers" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > CUT SWORD WITH CLIPPERS Floyd | Floyd | Working carefully, you cut the paper sword out from the book's dust Floyd | jacket. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a metallic jingling sound from somewhere else in the garden. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cut shield with clippers" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > CUT SHIELD WITH CLIPPERS Floyd | Floyd | Working carefully, yourself cut the paper shield out from the book's Floyd | dust jacket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take sword and shield" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SWORD AND SHIELD Floyd | Floyd | paper sword: You already have that. Floyd | paper shield: You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Greenhouse Floyd | A sunny green bank. Paths leads north to the orchard, northwest to the Floyd | folly, and west to the hidden lawn. Floyd | Floyd | A paper doll stands here, shivering slightly in the breeze. Floyd | Floyd | The paned glass wall of a greenhouse rises to the east. High above Floyd | your head a reflection of the sun gleams. Floyd | Floyd | A narrow crack stretches a foot vertically across a single grass-level Floyd | pane in the greenhouse wall. Floyd | Floyd | Growing inside the greenhouse you see a sweet maskelyne, a galen's Floyd | glory, a ligerlily, and a watchflower. Floyd | Floyd | Laid in the greenhouse floor is a drainage trough. At the east end is Floyd | a faucet, and at the west end, a pipe, through which water can be Floyd | flushed out of the trough onto the lawn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "give sword to doll" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE SWORD TO DOLL Floyd | Floyd | The doll takes the paper sword and bows its thanks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "give shield to doll" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE SHIELD TO DOLL Floyd | Floyd | The doll takes the paper shield and bows its thanks. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "don't know how a paper sword is supposed to be useful, but okay" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, e" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, E
Floyd |
Floyd | The doll slips through the crack into the greenhouse.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ligerlily roars and snaps at the paper doll; the doll, fending off
Floyd | the attack with its paper shield, stands its ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | The watchflower watches with interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "It just does. It's magic logic." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, take galen's" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, TAKE GALEN'S
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll pulls ineffectually at the the galen's glory, which is
Floyd | still attached to its stem.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ligerlily roars and snaps at the paper doll; the doll, fending off
Floyd | the attack with its paper shield, stands its ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | The watchflower watches with interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, cut galen's with sword" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, CUT GALEN'S WITH SWORD
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll cuts the galen's glory free from its stem. It flutters
Floyd | to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ligerlily roars and snaps at the paper doll; the doll, fending off
Floyd | the attack with its paper shield, stands its ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | The watchflower watches with interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| chaudmin says, "what a weak flower" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, take galen's" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, TAKE GALEN'S
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll picks up the galen's glory.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ligerlily roars and snaps at the paper doll; the doll, fending off
Floyd | the attack with its paper shield, stands its ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | The watchflower watches with interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "no, I think it's because the sword acts like a real sword in the doll's context." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, enter trough" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, ENTER TROUGH
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll gets into the trough.
Floyd |
Floyd | The faucet, enchanted by a spell, turns on. The trough fills with
Floyd | water, flushing the paper doll through the pipe and out of the
Floyd | greenhouse. The faucet turns off and the trough runs empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take galen's" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE GALEN'S
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll gives the galen's glory to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| chaudmin asks, "alright! now do we need to get rid of the seeksorrow?" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cut seeksorrow with clippers" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > CUT SEEKSORROW WITH CLIPPERS Floyd | Floyd | The starry seeksorrow doesn't need to be cut. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "or just leave it somewhere" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Orchard Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Orchard Floyd | The hummocky ground is shaded by large fruit trees. Paths leads south Floyd | to the greenhouse, west to the folly, and northeast to the gate. Floyd | Floyd | A six-foot high tangle of zephyrwort dances and whirls beneath the Floyd | tree trunks. Floyd | Floyd | A coffintree grows here. High in its branches sprouts an immature gall Floyd | the size of a baby's casket; close to the ground its massive mature Floyd | gall has split open, ready for use. Some significance of the history Floyd | of a ghost nags at your mind. Floyd | Floyd | A chimecherry tree is covered with fruit. Most of the cherries are Floyd | unripe, but one bunch hanging six feet up, bright red and glossy, Floyd | looks ready to chime. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I left the seeksorrow in the folly. I didn't want Klaus to smell it." | |
| DavidW says, "If there's a way to destroy it, I didn't learn it." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Folly Floyd | Patterns of green and gold play around a structure of mossy stones Floyd | built to look like a ruined temple. Its walls are overgrown with Floyd | creeping diamondbane. Paths lead east to the orchard, south to the Floyd | hidden lawn, and southeast to the greenhouse. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the temple is a grooved marble altar. Some significance of the Floyd | history of an expedition nags at your mind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put seeksorrow on altar" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > PUT SEEKSORROW ON ALTAR Floyd | Floyd | You put the starry seeksorrow on the altar. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "we shall sacrifice it to the gods" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hidden Lawn Floyd | A narrow, secluded spot in which Klaus is fond of reading. The ground Floyd | is covered by beds of lacegrass. The sky is a crescent of deep blue Floyd | above interlocking squirrel puzzle trees. Archways under bowed trunks Floyd | open north, to the folly, and east, to the greenhouse. Floyd | Floyd | Klaus is lying on his back in the grass. Floyd | Floyd | A heavy edition of Archibault's 1,001 Knights of Slee has Floyd | fallen at Klaus's side. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Does paper doll's dragon face breath fire?" | |
| DavidW says, "er breathe" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ooh. Interesting idea." | ||
| chaudmin says, "hm..." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Greenhouse Floyd | A sunny green bank. Paths leads north to the orchard, northwest to the Floyd | folly, and west to the hidden lawn. Floyd | Floyd | A paper doll stands here, shivering slightly in the breeze. Floyd | Floyd | The paned glass wall of a greenhouse rises to the east. High above Floyd | your head a reflection of the sun gleams. Floyd | Floyd | A narrow crack stretches a foot vertically across a single grass-level Floyd | pane in the greenhouse wall. Floyd | Floyd | Growing inside the greenhouse you see a sweet maskelyne, a ligerlily, Floyd | and a watchflower. Floyd | Floyd | Laid in the greenhouse floor is a drainage trough. At the east end is Floyd | a faucet, and at the west end, a pipe, through which water can be Floyd | flushed out of the trough onto the lawn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take paper dragon" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PAPER DRAGON Floyd | Floyd | The paper doll gives the paper dragon face to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "wear it" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR IT Floyd | Floyd | You can't wear that! Floyd | Floyd | You hear a metallic jingling sound from somewhere else in the garden. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh." | |
| DavidW says, "huh. Didn't know the face was takeable." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "give paper dragon to doll" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE PAPER DRAGON TO DOLL Floyd | Floyd | The doll takes the paper dragon face and bows its thanks. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin asks, "maybe tell the doll to burn it?" | |
| DavidW says, "we can try." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Folly Floyd | Patterns of green and gold play around a structure of mossy stones Floyd | built to look like a ruined temple. Its walls are overgrown with Floyd | creeping diamondbane. Paths lead east to the orchard, south to the Floyd | hidden lawn, and southeast to the greenhouse. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the temple is a grooved marble altar. Some significance of the Floyd | history of an expedition nags at your mind. Floyd | Floyd | On the altar is a starry seeksorrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take seeksorrow" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SEEKSORROW Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Greenhouse Floyd | A sunny green bank. Paths leads north to the orchard, northwest to the Floyd | folly, and west to the hidden lawn. Floyd | Floyd | A paper doll stands here, shivering slightly in the breeze. Floyd | Floyd | The paned glass wall of a greenhouse rises to the east. High above Floyd | your head a reflection of the sun gleams. Floyd | Floyd | A narrow crack stretches a foot vertically across a single grass-level Floyd | pane in the greenhouse wall. Floyd | Floyd | Growing inside the greenhouse you see a sweet maskelyne, a ligerlily, Floyd | and a watchflower. Floyd | Floyd | Laid in the greenhouse floor is a drainage trough. At the east end is Floyd | a faucet, and at the west end, a pipe, through which water can be Floyd | flushed out of the trough onto the lawn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, burn seeksorrow" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, BURN SEEKSORROW
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll is unable to do that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| chaudmin says, "I didn't think so" | |
| DavidW says, "I also did nothing with the magician plant or its wand. Or the eye-ful flower either." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, e" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, E
Floyd |
Floyd | The doll slips through the crack into the greenhouse.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ligerlily roars and snaps at the paper doll; the doll, fending off
Floyd | the attack with its paper shield, stands its ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | The watchflower watches with interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, cut sweet" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, CUT SWEET
Floyd |
Floyd | (with the paper sword)
Floyd | The paper doll cuts the sweet maskelyne free from its stem. It
Floyd | flutters to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ligerlily roars and snaps at the paper doll; the doll, fending off
Floyd | the attack with its paper shield, stands its ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | The watchflower watches with interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, take sweet" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, TAKE SWEET
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll picks up the sweet maskelyne.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ligerlily roars and snaps at the paper doll; the doll, fending off
Floyd | the attack with its paper shield, stands its ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | The watchflower watches with interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, cut ligerlily" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, CUT LIGERLILY
Floyd |
Floyd | (with the paper sword)
Floyd | The paper doll cuts the ligerlily free from its stem. It flutters to
Floyd | the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| chaudmin says, "oh. we could've just done that" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, take ligerlily" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, TAKE LIGERLILY
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll picks up the ligerlily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, cut watchflower" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, CUT WATCHFLOWER
Floyd |
Floyd | (with the paper sword)
Floyd | The paper doll cuts the watchflower free from its stem. It flutters to
Floyd | the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Doug goes home. | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, take watchflower" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, TAKE WATCHFLOWER
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll picks up the watchflower.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "doll, enter trough" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, ENTER TROUGH
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll gets into the trough.
Floyd |
Floyd | The faucet, enchanted by a spell, turns on. The trough fills with
Floyd | water, flushing the paper doll through the pipe and out of the
Floyd | greenhouse. The faucet turns off and the trough runs empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "boy, this is getting destructive." | |
| chaudmin says, "ok now we've got a bunch of flowers" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x sweet" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > X SWEET Floyd | Floyd | A flower with glossy black petals like a tailcoat and top hat, and a Floyd | yellow pistil like a magic wand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wave sweet" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > WAVE SWEET Floyd | Floyd | But you aren't holding that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "doll, wave sweet" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOLL, WAVE SWEET
Floyd |
Floyd | The paper doll waves the sweet maskelyne.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take wand" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE WAND Floyd | Floyd | The paper doll gives the sweet maskelyne to you. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a metallic jingling sound from somewhere else in the garden. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "wave wand" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > WAVE WAND Floyd | Floyd | You wave the sweet maskelyne. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. The wand isn't distinct from its plant." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x ligerlily" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > X LIGERLILY Floyd | Floyd | A flower whose petals, striped black and yellow, form the face of a Floyd | snarling, maned cat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take ligerlily" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE LIGERLILY Floyd | Floyd | The paper doll gives the ligerlily to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, ""feed seeksorrow to ligerlily"" | |
| DavidW says, "oo, try" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "feed seeksorrow to ligerlily" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > FEED SEEKSORROW TO LIGERLILY Floyd | Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "maybe the ligerlily is dead now" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "wave ligerlily" | ||
Floyd ] Greenhouse Floyd | Floyd | > WAVE LIGERLILY Floyd | Floyd | You wave the ligerlily. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a metallic jingling sound from somewhere else in the garden. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess so." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Or maybe that's just not implemented?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "probably that" | ||
| chaudmin says, "well, I'm thinking there isn't much we can do here" | ||
| DavidW says, "anyway, drop the seeksorrow somewhere where Klaus isn't, then use the galen's." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Folly Floyd | Patterns of green and gold play around a structure of mossy stones Floyd | built to look like a ruined temple. Its walls are overgrown with Floyd | creeping diamondbane. Paths lead east to the orchard, south to the Floyd | hidden lawn, and southeast to the greenhouse. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the temple is a grooved marble altar. Some significance of the Floyd | history of an expedition nags at your mind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put seeksorrow on altar" | ||
Floyd ] Folly Floyd | Floyd | > PUT SEEKSORROW ON ALTAR Floyd | Floyd | You put the starry seeksorrow on the altar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hidden Lawn Floyd | A narrow, secluded spot in which Klaus is fond of reading. The ground Floyd | is covered by beds of lacegrass. The sky is a crescent of deep blue Floyd | above interlocking squirrel puzzle trees. Archways under bowed trunks Floyd | open north, to the folly, and east, to the greenhouse. Floyd | Floyd | Klaus is lying on his back in the grass. Floyd | Floyd | A heavy edition of Archibault's 1,001 Knights of Slee has Floyd | fallen at Klaus's side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "give galen's to klaus" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE GALEN'S TO KLAUS Floyd | Floyd | The galen's glory settles down over Klaus's nose and mouth. For a few Floyd | moments, nothing happens -- then he takes a deep, involuntary breath. Floyd | After a few more breaths his eyes clear. He coughs and sits up Floyd | suddenly, and the galen's glory falls from his face. Floyd | Floyd | As his consciousness returns, yours fades. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have saved Klaus *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, or read the EPILOGUE? Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "hooray" | |
| Jacqueline says, "yay" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "epilogue" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Lawn Floyd | Floyd | > EPILOGUE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere in a magic garden a notorious flower decomposes... Floyd | Floyd | ...over the autum it shrivels... Floyd | Floyd | ...over the winter it liquefies and turns to slime... Floyd | Floyd | ...and in the spring this most devious of all flowers reseeds itself. Floyd | Its root system grows invisibly beneath a bed of lacegrass. It is Floyd | careful not to extend a tendril and bud a new bloom until the time is Floyd | right... Floyd | Floyd | --Beware The Starry Seeksorrow-- Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, or read the EPILOGUE? Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "noooo" | |
| DavidW says, "oh well. Sequel!" | ||
| chaudmin says, "I don't think it's possible to destroy anyway" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Roger says, "Seeksorrow 2, starring The Rock as the rock" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks, chaudmin, for driving that. I enjoyed watching it." | ||
| chaudmin says, "no problem" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Thanks for coming this week, everyone. One last SC game next week!" | ||
| DavidW says, "Thanks to claudmin and Jacqueline!" | ||
| chaudmin says, "yippee" | ||
